Inspect city treesDear Editor, The recent accident in which an Elm tree fell and injured a mother and her three children in Central Park due to root rot should be a wakeup call for the Parks Department to begin imme...

Ramp upDear Editor, Kudos to Councilman Rory Lancman and Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz for getting funds to build a wheelchair ramp, which allows P.S. 201 to regain its status as a polling place. The Pom...

'White' HouseDear Editor, Over the past few years, President Donald Trump has bashed Anderson Cooper, the family of a Muslim military veteran who was killed in action, Whoopi Goldberg, Nordstrom, opinion polls,...

Scared presidentDear Editor, Hundreds of alt-right activists, neo-Nazis and white nationalist extremists descended on Charlottesville last Saturday in what may have been the largest hate-gathering of its kind in d...

Anti-AmericanDear Editor, I am appalled and quite disturbed by the news that violence erupted on Saturday in Charlottesville. Americans hating Americans demonstrates to the world that we don't practice what we ...

Straight shooterDear Editor, The modern-day conservative movement's founding father, the late Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, would have been disappointed in President D...

RIP Glen CampbellDear Editor, Country singer Glen Campbell was a true music icon in the entertainment world for more than 50 years. With such classic songs as "Rhinestone Cowboy," “Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston,"...

Sack BlazDear Editor, We elected Mayor Bill de Blasio to run our city, not run away from it. His recent jaunt to Hamburg was just the latest in a series of overseas trips in which he tried to position himse...

Sell off PADear Editor, Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo's replacement of Port Authority executive director Pat Foye with New York State Special Counsel for Interagency Initiatives Rick Cotton, and C...

Why debt?Dear Editor, We are the richest country in the world, so why are we in debt for $20 trillion? The answer is simple: we have bad financial management. All this debt is, for the most part, unconstitu...

Legend lostDear Editor, Former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian was a legend in his own right. After leading Notre Dame's football team to victory for decades, he was the most colorful college football coach o...

Dodging D.A.Dear Editor, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown's surprise statement that his office declined to prosecute a Spectrum technician arrested for vandalism that cut off web service to 60,000 custom...

President thugDear Editor, Last week in a speech on Long Island, President Donald Trump endorsed police brutality with statements about “roughing up” people who have been arrested. Trump has previously encourage...

The real problemDear Editor, Here we go again with another bill of so-called "criminal justice reform" by Councilman Rory Lancman. Lancman bemoans that the 90 percent of arrestees for fare evasion in 2017 were bla...

Dumpster fireDear Editor, There are better solutions and more important issues to deal with than banning eating food on the subway to avoid track fires. In the 1960s, it was common to find both penny gum and so...